The practice, which merges pre-Abrahamic African religion, Christianity, and indigenous Caribbean features, has been stigmatised in the region Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up ...

TWO scholars examining Jamaica’s Obeah Law from different perspectives have agreed that the legislation is fundamentally flawed and lacks a clear definition of the practice it seeks to criminalise.

As a historian who has spent several years researching the history of prosecutions for obeah in Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean, I welcome Senators Lambert Brown and Tavares-Finson’s plan to ...

- a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas ...